Inside Sales Representative

What You’ll Do:
Support the achievement of Business Development Department’s annual goal by targeting Inside Sales’ specific annual revenue target through responsive and proactive consultative selling with target audience. Responsible for addressing new opportunity inquiries via phone, web and email contacts as well as proactive demand generation for sales campaigns, targeted regional growth opportunities and specific Americold projects and service offerings. 

• National responsibility for developing supply chain solutions for opportunities up to $250k +/year in value
• Monitor and respond to requests via telephone, email, web inquiries, conference and exhibition interest, and support for the Regional BD team
• Determine entirety of customer need through a consultative sell approach
• Review capacity reporting and revenue management targets to identify best-possible storage location for customer solutions
• Identify most appropriate Americold solution set, including storage, transportation and appropriate value-adding service enhancements to develop comprehensive, value-based solution
• Negotiate best pricing that wins business from customer but provides greatest commercial advantage for Americold, while adhering to Americold’s Commercial Business Rules framework
• Manage full sales cycle program from lead nurturing and development, through to execution of commercial agreement, including alignment of required internal functional groups, and business onboarding
• Provide support to Key Accounts and Regional Sales teams (opportunity generation) as needed
• Utilize customer profile data, KPIs, and business trend data
• Perform other misc. sales support functions

What Experience and Education You Need:

• Bachelor's degree or 3 years of equivalent business training and experience

What Could Set You Apart:

• Strong command of Microsoft Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
• Ability to think beyond answers and information customer provides to determine a strategic solution to support the customer’s supply chain concerns
• Knowledge of salesforce.com 
• Ability to handle multiple tasks at the same time
• Self-directed in task management
• Knowledge of commonly-used sales concepts, practices, and procedures
• Food & Beverage and/or Warehouse industry knowledge/experience

Physical Requirements:

While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; hear or talk: use close vision; use hands to grasp, handle or feel objects; and type and manipulate controls. Employee is occasionally required to use distance vision, stand, kneel or crouch and lift up to 10 lbs.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with applicable employment laws.
EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.